Hijab envy': the visible angst of immigrant Christians in a pluralist Canada
This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada's growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada&...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2018]
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Canada
/ Pluralistic society
/ Rivalry
/ Christian
/ Immigrants
/ Muslim
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
second-generation immigrant Christians
B Muslim expressive repertoire B politics of religious visibility B Religious pluralism in Canada |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada's growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada's new religious minorities, demonstrating that religious minorities have elicited begrudging admiration and envy from their Christian counterparts. This inquiry insists that contemporary Canada, not Christian Canada', is the most important frame for understanding the perceptions and predilections of the Christians in this study. It argues that pluralist ideals, the policy instruments, and social practices that carry these ideals and the cultural forums that display and debate these ideals shape not only the attitudes' of young Christians, but also the regimes of visibility in which and from which they operate. While scholars impute an increasing visibility to religion, this article demonstrates that the array of affects between viewer and viewed are highly variable and context specific. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2018.1408277 |